Data processing: presentation processing of document inventions 11/08

20080294972 - System and method for adding a layer of marks on top of web-pages: A system and method to put graphical marks such as post-it style notes, stickers and bookmarks on top of web pages is disclosed.... Agent: Drinker Biddle & Reath (dc)

20080294973 - System and method for generating documents from multiple image overlays: The subject application is directed to a system and method for construction of layered documents, such as advertisements, educational materials, graphic designs, and the like. In multiple image data files generated, for example, by scanning multiple document pages, a user is capable of selecting a color in a particular page,... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP

20080294974 - Webpage history view: A system and method of selecting a web page from a plurality of web pages, wherein the plurality of web pages are represented using a plurality of thumbnails is provided. In addition, the plurality of web pages can comprise previously visited web pages and previewed web pages. The system and... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20080294975 - Selectable revelation of content attributes for a hyperlink: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to attribute revelation for a hyperlinked selection and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for user customizable hyperlink hover properties. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for selectable revelation of content... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080294976 - System and method for generating and communicating digital documents: A document may be sent to a virtual printer which may be a software module configured as a print driver to receive the printer file, retrieve further information from a data repository, and produce a file including both the document image and additional information. The software module may further transmit... Agent: Pearl Cohen Zedek Latzer, LLP

20080294977 - Method and apparatus for creation, personalization, and fulfillment of greeting cards with gift cards: An automated fulfillment system enables gift cards to be embedded or sent along with personalized greeting cards. The present invention, a method, system and apparatus enables a person to 1) purchase a gift card from either a Internet Website, Catalog, and/or retail kiosk, 2) choose a retail quality greeting card,... Agent: Rissman Jobse Hendricks & Oliverio, LLP

20080294979 - Presenting multimodal web page content on sequential multimode devices: A method of accessing an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page can include the step of receiving a request for an Extensible Hypertext Markup Language Plus Voice Web page from a source that lacks the ability to directly render the Web page. The Web page can be segmented... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080294978 - Semantic navigation through web content and collections of documents: The present invention provides method and apparatus, including computer program products, A method for marking-up a plurality of electronic documents, comprising: semantic marking-up electronic documents according to a predetermined domain model presented in the form of domain ontology, thereby creating mark-up results represented in Ontology Web Language, OWL, format; and... Agent: Myers Wolin, LLC

20080294980 - Methods and devices for compressing and decompressing structured documents: The invention relates to a method of compressing a structured document having a tree-like structure comprising elements nested in each other, each element comprising attributes and a value field which may comprise other elements, the method comprising defining a simplified type comprising only a part of attributes of an original... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20080294981 - Page clipping tool for digital publications: Systems, methods, graphical user interface and other implementations are disclosed for capturing, saving, managing, and processing a plurality of sections of content of interest (e.g. page clippings) of a page or a plurality of pages from one or more digital publications based on the semantics of the content selected and... Agent: Advancis.com, Inc

20080294982 - Providing relevant text auto-completions: A processing device, such as, for example, a tablet PC, or other processing device, may receive non-textual language input. The non-textual language input may be recognized to produce one or more textual characters. The processing device may generate a list including one or more prefixes based on the produced one... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080294983 - Display control apparatus, display control method, display control program: There is provided a technique to contribute to an improvement in convenience of a setting screen for performing setting for a function capable of being executed by an image processing apparatus. A display control apparatus causes plural setting screens to be selectively displayed, which are respectively for performing settings for... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080294984 - Customizing haptic effects on an end user device: Systems, methods, and associated software are described herein for enabling a regular user of an end user device, such as a cellular telephone, to customize parameters associated with haptic effects applied to the user by the end user device. In one implementation, among several, a method described herein includes enabling... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20080294986 - Apparatus and method for creating macro: An apparatus and method for creating a macro are provided. The apparatus includes a generation unit generating a user interface (UI) performing a function of a macro command created by combining macro commands corresponding to a plurality of objects, and an output unit displaying the UI on a screen.... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080294985 - Graphical user interface (gui) noise reduction in a cognitive control framework: Reducing graphical user interface (GUI) noise maybe achieved by recording a first execution scenario for control of operation of an application program having a GUI during a recording phase of operation of a cognitive control framework system, setting soft conditions for a search for the application program for the first... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080294987 - Information processing terminal displaying guidance for a key operation on a standby-screen: A cellular phone and a guidance display program enable an enhancement of operability when operating the cellular phone, corresponding to an event. An occurrence of an event is detected, guidance information corresponding to the event is searched out of a guidance storage unit. A standby-image corresponding to the guidance information... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080294988 - Portable electronic checklist system: A checklist system comprising a computer and portable unit, according to one implementation, is described herein. The computer of the checklist system is configured to store a first portion of checklist software and one or more checklists. The computer is also configured to download checklists and software updates from a... Agent: Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP

20080294989 - Alarm correlation system: Network applications rely on ever-increasing diverse and complex transport service mechanisms. A transport service between points in a network often traverses multiple technologies involving numerous containments and adaptations. A network event affecting the transport service may occur in any number of elements supporting the transport service, resulting in a myriad... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20080294990 - Intelligent video tours: Intelligently crafting a dynamic video tour using a plurality of video devices selected in real time is provided. A list of attributes is received, the list of attributes describing at least one characteristic of a video device. A list of factors is continuously received, the list of factors describing one... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080294991 - Mechanism for electronic display devices: A computing device is provided that includes a display comprising a plurality of discrete elements. A memory is used to store a data collection of paginated content. A processor of the computing device is configured to retrieve each of the pages from the memory. The processor signals the display to... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080294994 - Event management system and method with calendar interface: A system and method for managing, advertising, and promoting events. Event information is collected from users and the Internet and stored in one or more databases on one or more servers. The event information is organized in the one or more databases according to various attributes and may be selectively... Agent: Justin Kruger

20080294993 - Method and system for facilitating delivery of content: There is provided a method for use by a server for facilitating delivery of content to a number of display devices. Each of the display devices can include, for example, an output display and a personal computer. In one embodiment, content is received from a computer coupled to the server.... Agent: Disney Enterprises C/o Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080294992 - Methods and apparatuses for displaying and managing content during a collaboration session: Methods and apparatuses share shared content from a presenter device with an attendee device; display the shared content on the attendee device; display an indicator associated with the shared content on the presenter device; and display a control tab configured to change a shared status.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080294995 - System and method of automatically generating animated installation manuals: An information management system is disclosed and includes a bootstrap server and at least one additional component. Further, the system includes an animated installation manual file stored within the bootstrap server. The animated installation manual is configured to be presented to a user upon an initial boot of the bootstrap... Agent: Larson Newman Abel Polansky & White, LLP

20080294996 - Customized retailer portal within an analytic platform: The methods and systems disclosed herein include an analytic platform, with a customized retailer portal application, that may be used to perform data projection and release methodologies in order to create an integrated, flexible, actionable view of data such as data relating to consumers, consumer behavior, commodity sales, and other... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080294997 - Contextually aware client application: Techniques and processes for subsidizing network access via content and advertising revenue are described. In one implementation, a user installs a context bar tool on the user's computing device. To access a network (e.g., a wireless network), the user activates the context bar tool and requests access to a network,... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080294998 - Network entity, terminal, computer-readable storage medium and method for providing widgits including advertisements for associated widgets: A network entity is provided and includes a processor that is configured to send a first widget to a mobile terminal. The first widget is associated with a second widget, and the mobile terminal is configured to present content of the first widget in a display of the mobile terminal... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080294999 - Electronic calendar collaboration: Meeting originators grant permission to update (i.e., add, change, and/or delete) a field or fields of a meeting invitation that corresponds to a calendar entry on an electronic calendar, enabling a meeting invitee to update a meeting invitation and to thereby communicate updates that can be reflected in the corresponding... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080295000 - Method and system for removing recipients from a message thread: A system for conveniently removing recipients from a message being added to a message thread that enables a user to filter people from a recipient list of a message being added to a message thread. The system advantageously enables a user to filter out potential recipients based on a) their... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080295001 - System for replying to related messages: A system is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a search module.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP C/o Susan Trader

20080295002 - Method and apparatus for acquiring data presented within a web browser: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that facilitates acquiring data, which is presented within a web browser, for an application. During operation, the system receives a command from a user to acquire data from the web browser for the application. In response to the command, the system... Agent: Pvf -- Intuit, Inc. C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080295003 - Method, system, and computer program product for efficiently serializing navigational state in a portal: e

20080295004 - Apparatus, system, and method for customizing a graphical user interface: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for customizing a graphical user interface. A rendition module renders a base GUI to provide an operator with tools for managing Data Processing Devices (DPD). A tag module communicates interface tags to the base GUI. The interface tags describe added functionality for managing... Agent: Kunzler & Mckenzie

20080295005 - System and method for adaptive document layout via manifold content: A user interface for improving document layout on arbitrary devices of different resolutions and size using manifold representations of content. Manifold representations of content are: multiple versions of anything that might appear in a document, from text, to images, to even such things as stylistic conventions. The specific content is... Agent: Microsoft Corporation C/o Lyon & Harr, LLP

20080295007 - Data visualization: Data visualization may be provided. First, a data cell may be displayed. Then a request may be received to expand the data cell into a plurality of sub-cells. A sum of the data corresponding to the plurality of sub-cells may equal a value corresponding to the data cell. Next, a... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080295006 - Dynamic layout for a search engine results page based of implicit user feedback: The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing dynamic search results based upon historical data through the use of one or more widgets. The method of the present invention comprises receiving a request for content from a client and generating one or more widgets for providing search... Agent: Yahoo! Inc. C/o Dreier LLP

20080295009 - Method and apparatus for capturing graphic user interface resource of an application: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for capturing graphic user interface resource of an application, which method comprises: loading resource files in which visible text data in graphic user interfaces of the application are stored; duplicating the resource files; adding identification information to each visible text data unit... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080295010 - Systems and methods for incorporating data into digital files: Software systems and methods may be provided for adding data, such as position information, to digital images stored on a computing device. A software system may be provided for integrating information from various sources on a computing device. In preferred embodiments, the software resides on a personal digital assistant (PDA)... Agent: Patton Boggs LLP

20080295008 - Visual browsing system and method: A visual browsing method allows a user to look at an item closely by hovering over, instead of clicking on, an icon representing the item. The method also enables the user to browse items in different levels of a multiple level category without waiting for web pages to be loaded,... Agent: Yahoo! Inc.

20080295011 - Binding an image descriptor of a graphical object to a text descriptor: A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-readable medium for binding an image descriptor of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) widget to a text field are presented. The method includes associating an image descriptor, of the GUI widget, with a content of an active field in the text field, wherein the image... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080295012 - Drag-and-drop abstraction: Drag-and-drop abstraction is described. In embodiment(s), a graphical user interface displays destinations that can be selected to receive various media content, and also displays representations of the various media content. A user can associate a representation of the media content with one or more of the destinations. A resource manager... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080295013 - Method and apparatus for performing semantically informed text operations: One example of a semantically informed text operation comprises selecting a source region of a document and determining if the source region has a surface region bi-directionally coupled to a semantic object. The coupled semantic object is identified as are the presentation(s) associated with the semantic object. A target region... Agent: Jones Day

20080295014 - User interface expander and collapser: A method of indicating expanded states and collapsed states of lower level expander/collapser items in a higher level visual control of a user interface display. The method includes providing, in the higher level visual control, a lower level expander/collapser indicator area; displaying a first display in the expander/collapser indicator area... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080295015 - Button discoverability: A processing device may include a display screen and one or more buttons located near the display screen. Pressing one of the one or more buttons may cause the processing device to perform a first function and pressing and holding the one of the one or more buttons may cause... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080295016 - Timescale for representing information: A method for presenting a plurality of documents on an array of documents is disclosed, the method comprising displaying a plurality of documents on the array of documents along a timeline that can use either a linear or a non-linear timescale. An interface and an apparatus for implementing the method... Agent: Maya-systems Inc.

20080295017 - User interface for a wireless device: Various embodiments of a user interface for a wireless device are described. In one embodiment, a wireless device may include a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a display coupled to the processor. The processor presents a navigation bar on the display. The navigation bar comprises multiple selectable... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080295018 - Apparatus, method and computer program product providing an adaptive forward button for a browser application: Disclosed are apparatus, computer program products, methods and a user interface that operate in conjunction with a forward button or control. In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of this invention a method includes, during a first instance of operation of an application, and in response to linking to a second... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080295022 - Apparatus and method for user configurable content interface and continuously playing player: The systems and methods of the present invention provided a web browser based content management application with an integrated user configurable content interface whereby a user can manage a wide variety of content, including multimedia content, using a single window. The user interface includes a “browser window in a browser... Agent: Greenberg Traurig

20080295020 - Appropriating user interface real estate: A computer-implementable method, system and computer media for allocating and managing insignificant areas of Graphical User Interface (GUI) real estate are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the computer-implementable method includes identifying an insignificant area of GUI real estate in a GUI that is used by a first application. The identified... Agent: Law Office Of Jim Boice

20080295019 - Document with sidebars: An electronic document has a sidebar object that is defined and formatted as an object within the document. The sidebar object may be presented and operate as a separate document within the main document, with individual controls such as scrolling, pagination, and zoom. A display mechanism determines display parameters for... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080295021 - Zone-associated objects: Zone-associated objects enable easier consumption of electronic media items that are presented to a user on a screen of a computing device. Zone-associated objects enable displaying electronic content on the screen of the computing device, the screen having multiple zones. Each object presented on the screen may be associated with... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080295023 - Image editing method, image editing apparatus, program for implementing image editing method, and recording medium recording program: To provide an image editing technique that enables a user to perform movement and magnification of an image with a single operation, and to perform trimming while grasping image composition in printing, the image editing method includes a step of instructing to move an arbitrary point of an image displayed... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080295024 - Communication between browser windows: A system for communication between browser windows includes a first web page configured to enable a first browser window into which the first web page is loaded to write a first message into a cookie; a second web page configured to enable a second browser window into which the second... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080295025 - System and method for implementing adaptive window and dialog management: A system and method for implementing adaptive window and dialog management on a data processing system. A user interface enables a user to interact with a primary program and at least one secondary program, and wherein the at least one secondary program notifies the user of at least one condition... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080295029 - Addressing query scheduling and system resource requirements: Method, system and article of manufacture for scheduling queries. In particular, the scheduling options made available to a user for a particular unit of work are determined dynamically at the time of scheduling. In this way, the execution cost, for example, of a particular unit of work can be taken... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080295027 - Apparatus and method for changing application user interface in portable terminal: A method for changing an application User Interface (UI) in a portable terminal using menu theme information is provided. UI theme information contained in menu theme information is loaded, a main window image is selected from the loaded UI theme information, and theme index table information is selected. A user... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080295028 - Content display method, content display apparatus, recording medium, and server apparatus: A content display method includes the steps of acquiring an icon image corresponding to a data content set composed of a plurality of data contents, generating a plurality of specific icons which are different from each other and correspond to the data contents, on the basis of the icon image... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080295026 - Method and apparatus for displaying application program and menu: Provided are a method and apparatus for displaying application program (AP) menu. The method includes creating an AP menu, for selecting at least one AP, by using data for the at least one AP; and displaying the AP menu in a predetermined area of the image display unit. The AP... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080295030 - User interface for special purpose controller: A temperature controller for controlling the temperature of an inside space that is serviced by one or more pieces of HVAC equipment. The temperature controller may include a controller having a control algorithm for controlling one or more pieces of HVAC equipment as well as a user interface that may... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080295031 - Imaging apparatus and image reproducing display device: A digital camera records image files time-sequentially on a memory card. When an image sort-out button is pressed, an event delimiter file is recorded behind the latest image file, separate those image files recorded before the event delimiter file from image files recorded thereafter. Thus, image files recorded between one... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080295032 - Button panel configuration and design for a mobile computing device: A mobile computing device that includes an input area where mechanical interface features are provided in a layout that associates a specific kind of functionality with regions of the input area.... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080295033 - Control unit for refrigerator and method controlling the same: The present invention relates to a control unit for a refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. A control unit for a refrigerator according to the present invention comprises an input means for receiving an operation signal for setting a service mode of a dispenser provided at the refrigerator;... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080295034 - Image pickup apparatus, control method therefor, image pickup system, information processing apparatus, program and storage medium: An image pickup apparatus in which when a decision button is depressed, a transfer confirmation screen is displayed without recording a selection record, and, when a shortcut button is depressed, a selection record is recorded and the transfer confirmation screen is not displayed. When one of image data recorded in... Agent: Cowan Liebowitz & Latman P.C. John J Torrente

20080295036 - Display control apparatus, display method, and computer program: A display control apparatus includes a search unit for searching for a second content related to a first content in accordance with at least part of metadata attached to each of the first content and the second content, a generating unit for generating a three-dimensional display model, the three-dimensional display... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080295035 - Projection of visual elements and graphical elements in a 3d ui: A method includes determining user interface data based at least on a projection of visual element information from a projector at a first location in a three-dimensional space onto a screen object defined in the space. The screen object forms at least a portion of a user interface. The method... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20080295037 - Method and apparatus for generating 3d carousel tree data visualization and related device: A method for generating 3D carousel visualization of large-scale tree data, which comprises the steps of: receiving a user's selection of a node in the carousel; according to the radius of a sub-carousel corresponding to the user-selected node and the radius of a carousel at which the selected node is... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080295038 - Automated treemap configuration: Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present invention provide for representing a plurality of source data values as graphical elements in a default treemap visualization, where each data value is associated with a plurality of data dimensions. A first data dimension is selected to be mapped... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew LLP

20080295039 - Animations: Animations enhance viewing and consumption of electronic items that are presented to a user on a screen of a computing device. These animations may occur in response to receiving an instruction to move a position of a cursor displayed on the screen of the computing device. A user may trigger... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080295040 - Closed captions for real time communication: The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that facilitate yielding closed caption service associated with real time communication. For example, audio data and video data can be obtained from an active speaker in a real time teleconference. Moreover, the audio data can be converted into a set of characters... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080288854 - Deriving menu-based voice markup from visual markup: A visual markup to voice markup transcoding system, method and machine readable storage. The basic method can include identifying at least one heading in visual markup; creating a corresponding menu item in voice markup; further creating a text block in the voice markup for text associated with the identified heading;... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080288855 - System and method for delivering information related to a product: The invention relates to a system for delivering information related to a product, including a computer, a webpage displayed on the computer that is directed to the product, a program executing on the computer for placing an overlay over the webpage where at least one portion of the overlay is... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, LLC

20080288856 - Digital system for organizing diverse information: A system for creating links among diverse elements in order to convey a variety of logical relationships. The system uses a unique approach to browser development in order to allow for the delayed transformation of data which has undergone either a change to its actual value, or a change in... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080288857 - Sharing editable ink annotated images with annotation-unaware applications: Data associated with pixels obscured by annotations in an annotated image is stored using an annotation mask enabling annotation-aware applications to reconstruct the original image, while annotation-unaware applications can display the annotated image with optimized increase in extra data to be stored. The annotation mask, same size as the image,... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080288859 - Methods and apparatus for summarizing document content for mobile communication devices: A document summary which includes an assemblage of a plurality of summary entries is generated for an electronic document. In the generation of the document summary, a content structure or properties within the electronic document are analyzed. The plurality of summary entries are selected from the contents of the electronic... Agent: David B. Cochran, Esq. Jones Day

20080288858 - Structured document processing apparatus, method and program: Statistical information about instance documents and schema information are used to integrate multiple state transitions that enable sectioning of a structure document, thereby generating an optimum automaton. In integrating state transitions, consecutively matching state transitions are held in the form of an ID list, which is then used to count... Agent: Frederick W. Gibb, Iii Gibb & Rahman, LLC

20080288860 - Apparatus and method for organizing visual objects: A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to accept a set of document objects, wherein each document object is associated with a z-order. A document object in the set of document objects is passed to a pre-rendering region comprising a stack of one or more panes, wherein the document... Agent: Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Attn: Patent Group

20080288861 - Generating a word-processing document from database content: Documents are automatically generated from data within a database. The look and feel of the document is defined externally from the data in the database such that a consistent look and feel is applied to the retrieved data. Templates are defined that specify the structure of the document including its... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080288862 - Method and system for in-document markup in support of information sharing: A system is provided to facilitate content dissemination. During operation, the system allows a user to add a tag to a first document, wherein the tag indicates an operation to be performed on a portion of the document. The system then processes the tag and performs the operation on the... Agent: Pvf -- Parc C/o Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080288863 - System and method of personalizing web pages by pre-fetching subsets of individual member data: A method of efficiently providing information for personalizing a web page includes storing member information for a plurality of members such that the member information for each of at least a portion of the plurality of members includes a plurality of responses to demographic questions associated with one or more... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080288864 - Method and system to enable prioritized presentation content delivery and display: A method and device for content presentation are disclosed. The device receives one or more elements of content according to the priority setting thereof. The device displays the received elements. A sequence setter, responsive to a request for opening a remote slide file, is operable to receive an index of... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wip) C/o Walder Intellectual Property Law, P.C.

20080288865 - Application with in-context video assistance: At least one computing device provides user assistance functionality associated with an application. The application is executed, including causing at least one user interface to be displayed via which a user may interact with the application. Each user interface corresponds to a particular function. For each function, in a portion... Agent: Beyer Law Group LLP/yahoo

20080288869 - Boolean search user interface: A computer implemented method includes displaying a plurality of keywords, each keyword being associated with one or more media items and a Boolean operation tool comprising an inclusion selector and an exclusion selector. The method also includes receiving a selection of either the inclusion selector or the exclusion selector for... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080288867 - Mobile communication device and method of controlling the same: A mobile communication device, a computer program product, and a method of controlling the same are provided. The method includes displaying a list of multimedia files that can be played on a screen of a first display unit; selecting a multimedia file from the list; and playing the selected multimedia... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080288866 - Mobile device carrousel systems and methods: Receiving a first plurality of media presentations; outputting the first plurality of media presentations to a user of a mobile telephone in a first sequential presentation of the first plurality of media presentations at least until the user selects one of the first plurality of media presentations; outputting a second... Agent: Smith Frohwein Tempel Greenlee Blaha, LLC

20080288868 - Multimedia project manager, player, and related methods: A novel enhanced multimedia player is disclosed that allows users to view multimedia presentations in a non-linear manner. Moreover, the systems and methods of the present disclosure provide an easy mechanism whereby smaller companies can have tailored multimedia presentations where those responsible for implementing the presentations are not experts in... Agent: Greenberg Traurig LLP (la)

20080288871 - Broadcast receiving apparatus and method for replaying content thereby: A broadcasting receiving apparatus and a method for replaying content received thereby are provided. The method for replaying displays a video signal and content on a display, and the broadcast receiving apparatus includes a control unit which controls to output a video signal on a first screen, and to output... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080288870 - System, methods, and apparatus for multi-user video communications: A computer software product, methods and apparatus for improved video communications are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus is provided that is configured to allow multi-user video communication. The video communications are streamed to and stored on a server device on a network. In one embodiment, the server device is... Agent: Heller Ehrman LLP

20080288872 - Scalable anti-replay windowing: The present disclosure provides a method for scalable anti-replay windowing. According to one exemplary embodiment, the method may include receiving at least one data packet having at least one new sequence number. The method may also include comparing the at least one new sequence number to an anti-replay window configured... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC C/o Intellevate, LLC

20080288873 - Cluster management system and method: Compute clustering software embodied in a computer-readable medium and operable to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) is provided, the GUI operable to present a selection area for illustrating a plurality of receptors in a chassis, each receptor configured to couple to a network device, wherein the selection area conveys... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080288874 - Computer interface method and apparatus with portable network organization system and targeted advertising: A method and apparatus for providing an automatically upgradeable software application includes targeted advertising based upon demographics and user interaction with the computer. The software application includes a display region used for banner advertising that is downloaded over a network such as the Internet. The software application is accessible from... Agent: James D. Stevens Reising, Ethington, Barnes, Kisselle, P.C.

20080288875 - Method and apparatus for managing control ownership for application of remote user interface server: Provided is a remote user interface (RUI). An RUI server inserts a newly defined object to a user interface (UI) page so as to manage control ownership of an application, and a RUI client controls an application of the RUI server after obtaining control ownership of the corresponding application by... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080288876 - Audio variance for multiple windows: Systems and methods for varying the audio of multiple windows on a personal computer are provided. The windows may overlap in various configurations. These configurations may cause the audio associated with media playing in each media window that is overlapped to be varied in a number of different ways. The... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080288879 - Image forming device, user-interface image creating method, and computer-readable recording medium: An image forming apparatus is connectable to a PC and has an operation panel disposed on or in the vicinity of the image forming apparatus. When a request for acquisition of a user-interface image is received from the operation panel, the image forming apparatus creates, by using an instance, a... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080288878 - Method and mobile terminal device for mapping a virtual user input interface to a physical user input interface: The present invention provides a method an a device for mapping a virtual user input interface to a physical user input interface. The method is provided for mapping a virtual user input interface to a physical user input interface on a mobile terminal device. The mobile terminal device comprises a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20080288877 - System for composing software appliances using user task models: A method, of composing a software application having a user interface, includes receiving input relating to a plurality of tasks and defining a task model of a process, the plurality of tasks including at least one user task to be performed by a user of the application; automatically identifying a... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/sap

20080288881 - Allocation system and method: A method of recording allocation of resources in response to a request for a data item to be transmitted to a device in the network where the request comprises data indicative of one or more requested items. The device is typically a mobile device and the requested items can be... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080288883 - Confirming an action utilizing a single button object: A computer readable medium being capable of confirming an action through a confirmation button is presented. According to the present invention, an action and its confirmation are enforced within the integral functionality of the same button object.... Agent: Ibm Rp-rps Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080288884 - Graphical user interface for travel planning system: A graphical user interface for a travel planning system is described. The graphical user interface is implemented as a web page and includes a tabular region of the graphical user interface that displays summarized travel options and comprises a plurality of cells that act as controls. The interface also includes... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080288880 - Speed dependent displaying of information items in a graphical user interface: Electronic device with a display screen and a navigational input device places information items in a string along a path on the display screen. The user can move the string of information items along the path at a variable speed by using the navigational input means. The shape of the... Agent: Perman & Green

20080288882 - Systems and methods for privacy service: Systems and methods are disclosed that utilize privacy services to improve Internet shopping. In particular, a method for improving Internet shopping comprises providing a visual indicator to a plurality of websites for display on the websites, the visual indicator is indicative of a single privacy policy shared amongst the websites;... Agent: Thomas Andrew Fink

20080288885 - Internet terminal device using window frame configuration information, frame server, information system, and browser execution method: There is provided a mechanism for an Internet terminal device to acquire window frame configuration information as a browser configuration element and display the information in a window frame. The present invention provides: (1) an Internet terminal device including means for holding a device identifier for identifying itself, means for... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080288886 - System and method for displaying and manipulating hierarchically linked data in a genealogy database using a graphical interface: A system and method for displaying, searching, manipulating and modifying of hierarchically linked genealogy data in a relational database on a computer system. A graphic representation of the data in the database is displayed on a computer display device. The system uses zooming, a common function used in computer systems,... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080288887 - Mechanism for displaying paginated content on electronic display devices: A computing device is provided that includes a display comprising a plurality of discrete elements. A memory is used to store a data collection of paginated content. A processor of the computing device is configured to retrieve each of the pages from the memory. The processor signals the display to... Agent: Shemwell Mahamedi LLP

20080288888 - Computer user interface for a digital microform imaging apparatus: A computer implemented method of viewing a microform segment which has been imaged by a digital microform imaging apparatus connected to a computer. The digital microform imaging apparatus images the microform segment and provides a corresponding image data of the microform segment to the computer. The method comprises the steps... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080288889 - Data visualization application: The methods and systems disclosed herein include an analytic platform, with a data visualization application, that may be used to perform data fusion methodologies in order to create an integrated, actionable view of consumers, consumer behavior, commodity sales, and other commercial activities, such as the relationship between consumers and stores.... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080288890 - Multimedia presentation authoring and presentation: Various embodiments include one or more of systems, methods, software, data structures, and user interfaces for recording and delivery of multimedia presentations. Some embodiments include simultaneous recording of video and capturing of identifiers of other media elements selected for display from a playlist relative to time positions within the recorded... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080288891 - Using a number shortcut: A method for selecting an item using a number shortcut is disclosed. The method includes providing a list of items; receiving a number shortcut; and rendering an item from the list, wherein the item is associated with the number shortcut. Applications, apparatuses and computer programs for implementing the method is... Agent: Perman & Green

20080288892 - System and method of presenting telephone functions as interactive elements on an electronic device: A system, method, and user interface of presenting telephone functions as interactive elements on an electronic device with telephone capabilities such as a mobile device is disclosed. The system and method provides a user with a mechanism for focusing on a call, where the call is selected by user activation... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080288893 - Method and device for visualization of information: The invention relates to a method of visualizing information about objects for the benefit of a user. The method comprises providing a substantially 2-D space with a plurality of separate locations; providing a set of objects with a plurality of objects; linking each of the objects in the 2-D space... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20080288894 - User interface for documents table of contents: Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for providing a table of contents for a document viewer application. A document viewer application is provided that can display a document that has multiple pages of content. Upon receiving a selection from the user to access a table of contents for the document,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080288896 - Method and system for attention-free user input on a computing device: A method and system for attention-free user input on a computing device is described that allows the recognition of a user input irrespective of the area of entry of the user input on a writing surface (such as a digitizer) without the user having to make a visual contact with... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080288895 - Touch-down feed-forward in 30d touch interaction: A 3-D display device in which zooming is controlled based on the distance that a user's finger is from the display screen, generates a virtual drop shadow of the user's finger at the detected X/Y position of the user's finger with respect to the display screen. The virtual drop shadow... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080282138 - Methods and systems for multimedia object association to digital paper spatial diagrams: Methods and systems for multimedia object association to digital paper spatial diagrams are disclosed herein. A method for multimedia object association to digital paper spatial diagrams includes the steps of (1) capturing a media object to be imported into a spatial information system; (2) linking the captured media object to... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20080282140 - Embedded website banner system and method: A system and method for providing a website involve a novel way of porting a full website through an ad banner. A user viewing a website including the ad banner interacts with the ad banner. The ad banner then expands and the ported website is viewed in the expanded ad... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080282139 - Tree view for reusable data markup language: Methods and systems provide a “tree view” for a markup language referred to as Reusable Data Markup Language (“RDML”). Generally, a tree view comprises the components necessary for automatically manipulating and displaying a graphical display of numerical data contained in RDML markup documents. RDML is a markup language, such as... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080282141 - System for creating a reusable list, saving it in a clipboard, and accessing a current document version by selecting a hyperlink on the list: A computer system that allows a user to select one or more of the documents that are listed in a summary view of documents and creates a list of the selected documents. Advantageously, for each selected document, the list includes document summary data pertaining to the selected document and a... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP C/o Susan Trader

20080282143 - Document processing device and document processing method: A document processing apparatus 100 provides display/editing systems such as an HTML unit 150 for displaying/editing an HTML document, an SVG unit 160 for displaying/editing an SVG document, etc., in increments of vocabularies using plug-ins. In a case of processing a document described in a vocabulary that is not supported... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080282142 - Rendering a user interface: There is provided a user interface which is defined by a plurality of actors and the attributes) that are associated with the actors. A renderer is used to render the user interface in accordance with the attributes of the actors. Changes in actor attributes, for example in response to a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080282144 - Structured document bounding language: Using a bounding language to control or restrict the changes that can be made to contents of a structured document (e.g., a document encoded in the Extensible Markup Language, or “XML”), and also the bounding language and documents encoded according to the bounding language. A Document Type Definition (“DTD”) is... Agent: Marcia L. Doubet Law Firm

20080282145 - Method and system for effective schema generation via programmatic analysis: A method to generate an effective schema of an electronic document for optimizing the processing thereof may include performing a programmatic analysis to determine all required portions of the electronic document. The method may also include generating a parser or deserializer to build an optimized document model; and specializing a... Agent: Moore & Van Allen, PLLC For Ibm

20080282146 - Text display device: Presented is a device for aiding in reading comprehension which includes a display unit with a first position and a second position. The most recently read text is typically displayed on the right hand side of the display unit and the recently read text is displayed on the left hand... Agent: Dykas, Shaver & Nipper, LLP

20080282147 - Constraint and rule-based page layout: Technologies are described herein for laying out content. Constraints and rules are defined for one or more content objects. The constraints are utilized to lay out content objects on a canvas. Content is received for one of the content objects. The constraints and rules for the content object are utilized... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282148 - Processing method for increasing speed of opening a word processing document: A processing method for increasing speed of opening a word processing document includes: reading a data content of a word processing document; reading typeset information of a page stored in the word processing document and obtaining paragraph information and object information of the page; according to the paragraph information and... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - PhiladelphiaIPDepartment

20080282149 - Automated paragraph layout: Methods and apparatus for calculating paragraph layout. A method begins with a first node in a paragraph and calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout that ended in the node. For every subsequent node in the paragraph, the method calculates an optimal line break scheme for paragraph layout... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080282151 - Document segmentation based on visual gaps: A document may be segmented based on a visual model of the document. The visual model is determined according to an amount of visual white space or gaps that are in the document. In one implementation, the visual model is used to identify a hierarchical structure of the document, which... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080282150 - Finding important elements in pages that have changed: A page is received, which includes elements. A tree represents the page. A subset of the elements are displayed. In response to selection of an important element, a subtree is created, which includes a path from a root element of the tree to the important element. A changed page is... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080282152 - System for capturing document style by example: A system and method of using an example document to create another document with the same style. The style is determined by examining the example file for syntax patterns that are required in a document of this type. Each pattern is used to create a section template (a sub-template for... Agent: Ibm Corp. (wsm) C/o Winstead Sechrest & Minick P.C.

20080282153 - Text-content features: A device that may include logic to determine whether each word in a text is important to convey a content of the text, logic to emphasize each word determined to be important, and logic to reduce spacing between lines of text.... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080282154 - Method and apparatus for improved text input: A method for providing a combined set of proposed words from a predictive text engine, as well as a module, an apparatus, a system and a computer readable medium. Generally, according to the method, a number of key input actuations is received via e.g. a keypad. Then, a first set... Agent: Perman & Green

20080282157 - Magnifying the text of a link while still retaining browser function in the magnified display: A web browser magnifies the content of the whole page in memory and displays the relevant portion in a magnifier with hyperlinks. The web browser then maps the magnified display to the original document. Thus, manipulation of the mouse in the magnified display may result in an action with respect... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080282156 - Method and system for providing a slideshow to multiple platforms: A computer-implemented method and system for displaying multimedia content on a device corresponding to a platform are described. The multimedia content includes a plurality of items. The method and system include determining at least one attribute associated with an item of the plurality of items. The method and system also... Agent: Strategic Patent Group, P.C.

20080282155 - System and method of creating and displaying messages: A system and method of creating a message and displaying the same are described. The system includes a message composer operable on a computer system for composing and generating a message file. The message file has a content portion for containing a message content and a header portion for containing... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080282158 - Glance and click user interface: A user interface includes a first region configured to provide information on and access to content applications of a device and services accessible via the device, a second region configured to provide information on and access to communication applications of the device and services accessible via the device, and a... Agent: Perman & Green

20080282159 - Summarization of attached, linked or related materials: A summarization system and method. The summarization method includes utilizing a first body of information to obtain a second body of information, which is identified (by a hyperlink, an attachment identifier, a reference, etc.) in the first body of information. A summary of the obtained second body of information is... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080282160 - Designated screen capturing and automatic image exporting: A method of continuously capturing a plurality of designated screens of at least one targeted computer program or computer system, and automatically exporting the screen images into at least one destination file for documentation purpose is disclosed. The method includes intercepting keystrokes, mouse-clicks, and/or voice commands to capture a plurality... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20080282161 - Masking changes to a computer application: The present invention provides an interface (as well as associated methods, systems, program products, etc.) for masking changes to a computer application. In general, the interface comprises a facade for facilitating interaction between the interface and a user; a dialog wizard for receiving a set of instructions for the computer... Agent: Hoffman Warnick LLC

20080282162 - Method, system and apparatus using a sensory cue to indicate subsequent action characteristics for data communications: A communications device provides a user with a sensory cue that informs the user of certain characteristics of a subsequent action that includes data communications. By informing the user of the data communication characteristics before the user initiates the data communication action, the invention appropriately sets user expectations regarding the... Agent: Kacvinsky LLC C/o Intellevate

20080282163 - System and method for a multimedia timeline: An interactive user interface on a computer system for presenting information about a deceased person comprises a viewable screen image. A plurality of types of life related recordations are associated with a time during the person's life. The user interface further includes a plurality of selection options. Each of the... Agent: Frost Brown Todd, LLC

20080282165 - Device, methods, and media for providing mult-point video conferencing unit functions: Devices, methods, and media for providing multi-point video conferencing unit functions are provided. In some embodiments, devices for providing multi-point conferencing unit functions comprise: a combination of at least one input interface that receives a plurality of video signals, and that receives a visual layout from an EMCU end-point; a... Agent: Byrne Poh LLP

20080282164 - Interacting with phone numbers and other contact information contained in browser content: The present invention discloses a method for handling contact information in a communication device. The method can include a step of presenting content within a visual interface of the communication device. A contact detection algorithm can execute to detect contact items included in the content. A visual indication can be... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080282166 - Method and system for designing a pastry: Method and systems for creating a pastry design are disclosed. The pasties are designed by receiving a tiers selection defining a number of pastry tiers; receiving a shape selection for each of the selected number of pastry tiers; presenting a pastry design based on the number of tiers selection and... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080282168 - Differential dynamic delivery of content historically likely to be viewed: Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for differential dynamic content delivery. Typical embodiments include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; receiving a prerecorded presentation control instruction; selecting from the session structured document a classified... Agent: International Corp (blf)

20080282167 - Private presenter notes: In some embodiments, a presenter remote unit, usable for controlling digital segments, such as digital presentation slides, has a display for displaying private notes that are pre-associated with the digital segments. The private notes can be navigated using a menu displayable on the presenter remote unit.... Agent: Dwc Law Firm, P.s.

20080282169 - Multi-user interactive web-based searches: A method for multiple users to jointly interact with web-based search results is provided. Selections of the search results by a user are immediately communicated to other users. Viewing options may be customized on a per-user basis for greater individual control over viewing the results. Results may be further acted... Agent: Hickman Palermo Truong & Becker LLP/yahoo! Inc.

20080282170 - Temporary communication areas for a computer user interface: Techniques are disclosed for displaying information to a user on a display device of a computer system. In one general aspect, a first view is displayed on the display device, where the first view has at least a first work area. In response to the receipt of a first input... Agent: Fish & Richardson, P.C.

20080282171 - System and method for production of online magazines: A computer system for supporting inclusion of continuously updated content into web publications, the computer system including an input unit for obtaining content from a plurality of sources of continuously updatable content at independent locations over a network, and a selection unit for representing the plurality of sources to a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20080282172 - Dynamic gui rendering by aggregation of device capabilities: Provided are techniques for rendering a Graphical User Interface (GUI). A device capabilities set is obtained from a device. A rendering package that corresponds to the device capabilities set for the device is selected. The GUI is generated using the rendering package and the device capabilities set. The GUI is... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP. Attn: Ibm37

20080282173 - Displaying web page on mobile communication terminal: A method of controlling a mobile communication terminal. The method includes receiving a web page, displaying, on a display screen of the terminal, a first display window which displays one part of the received web page and a second display window which displays another part of the received web page,... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080282174 - Signing up to a person or entity: Various embodiments provide an individual with an ability to “sign up” or subscribe to an individual or entity so that they can automatically receive various content published by the individuals or entities. In at least some embodiments, sign up functionality can allow the individual to directly sign up to the... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282175 - Automatically encoded, gracefully degrading panels: Automatically encoded, gracefully degrading Asynchronous JavaScript And eXtensible Markup Language (Ajax) panels, in which states of an Ajax panel are rendered in a web browser using either an automatically-encoded JavaScript code portion or an automatically-encoded non-JavaScript code portion of a web document, based on an automatic determination of a JavaScript... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080282176 - Dynamic web page arrangement: A browser renders a page for display according to user habits. When a user interacts with a page associated with a network address, an entry is made in a file that associates the element on the page of the user interaction with the network address. When the page is visited... Agent: Ibm Corporation, Intellectual Property Law Dept 917, Bldg. 006-1

20080282177 - User interface for editing photo tags: There is disclosed a user interface for editing photo tags. In an embodiment, the user interface embodies a method of editing photo tags, comprising: displaying a photo on a display; providing a photo tagging mode for editing tags for the displayed photo; and for each tag used to tag a... Agent: Fasken Martineau Dumoulin LLP

20080282178 - Method and system to provide notification of messages and prompts associated with applications: A method of providing notification of messages and prompts associated with applications. When an application executing on a computer generates a prompt while the computer is unattended, a prompt notification program (PNP) sends descriptive information that corresponds to the prompt from the computer to a mobile messaging device. The mobile... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080282179 - Tab browsing in mobile communication terminal: A method of controlling a mobile communication terminal. The method includes displaying at least first and second display objects on a display screen, each display object having a tab corresponding to the respective displayed object, recognizing an input signal that selects a corresponding tab, and displaying a preview window on... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080282180 - Data transfer using a network clipboard: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media provide for the transfer of data between electronic devices utilizing a network clipboard. According to various embodiments described herein, a clipboard application residing on a host device associated with a user transmits data from a local clipboard of the host device to a remote network... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080282181 - Executable application configuration information processing system: A system provides information indicating a change in configuration of an executable application. An acquisition processor acquires adaptation information identifying a change of a first configuration of a first executable application relative to a second configuration of the first executable application. A data processor associates an adaptation indicator representing a... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080282182 - Control system for networked home electrical appliances: A network household electric control system has a household electric appliance controlling ASP server installed as an external server (300) on the Internet. When household electric appliances (150) are to be controlled from an operation terminal (130) in the house of a customer through a home server (120), the GUI... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080282184 - Information handling: An information handling apparatus, in which metadata is generated in respect of a current information item by reference to an ensemble of information items having associated metadata, the metadata having corresponding indicator data representing a degree of trust associated with that metadata, comprises a detector for detecting one or more... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080282183 - Ophthalmic lens design and/or dispensing: A method of designing and/or selecting a progressive addition lens design for a wearer is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes displaying a graphical representation of an initial progressive addition lens design including design parameters having design values. A user interface is provided including, for each of one or... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20080282185 - Customized messages for password/passcode change events: The present invention discloses a method and system for notifying a user of a password/passcode change event. In the invention, a computing system can automatically detect a password/passcode change event. At least one user affected by the event can be determined. A pre-existing user defined message can be retrieved from... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080282186 - Keyword generation system and method for online activity: This document discloses a system and method for recording and tagging a user's online activity, manipulating textual representations of the recorded and tagged online activity, and displaying the manipulated textual representations in a window for later use. A graphical representation of keywords determined from online activity between one or more... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080282187 - Visualization of citation and coauthor traversal: When searching for academic or research publications, a user can be presented, not only with a linear listing of publications that may be relevant to the user's search terms, but the user can also be presented with a citation map representing a visual presentation of the interrelationships between a selected... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282188 - Shape elasticity in visual layout: Resizing and/or repositioning a target object related by containment to one or more related object laid out on a computer user interface. Original sizes and/or positions of the related objects to the target object resized and/or repositioned are stored. During the resize and/or reposition operation of the target object, an... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080282189 - System and method for simultaneous display of multiple tables: In a system and method for displaying hierarchically related data, a processor may display in a single display window of a display device respective representations of a plurality of hierarchically related data records in accordance with the hierarchical relationship, where each of at least two of the representations includes a... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080282190 - Content display control apparatus and content display control method: Content items that have the same metadata are grouped together as content groups out of content items to which metadata of different categories has been added, and a content group having a previously selected category and metadata thereof is taken as a criterion. The arrangement of the content groups that... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080282191 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing centralized management and delivery services for media content: A method, system, and computer program product for providing media management services are provided. The method includes creating an account record for a user identification received from a network-enabled media recording device and storing the user identification in the account record. The method also includes mapping the user identification to... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - At&t

20080282192 - Method and apparatus for selecting and displaying a number of test data items: In one embodiment, a user-operable mechanism or selecting a number of tests in a test program is displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI). In response to a selected number of tests, a first plurality of test data items are filtered to obtain a number of test data items associated... Agent: Gregory W. Osterloth Holland & Hart, LLP

20080282193 - Automatically playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus: A system comprises a display and logic coupled to the display. The logic automatically begins playing a video clip associated with an icon that is in focus on the display.... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20080282194 - Graphical menu interface, implementing method thereof, and operating method thereof: A graphical menu interface, an implementing method thereof, and an operating method thereof are provided. In the implementing method of the graphical menu interface, m function groups are provided first, and each of the function groups has at least one function. Then, an operating frame related to each function group... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080282195 - Apparatus, method, and computer program for controlling display: A display control apparatus includes a first display control unit for controlling displaying a first representative image in a first folder on a first area of a display screen with first content recorded on a recording medium thereof belonging to the first folder, a second display control unit for controlling... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080282197 - Microscopic-measurement apparatus: A microscopic-measurement apparatus capable of displaying, on a display device, an enlarged view of a particular part of a specimen placed on a movable stage and providing optical information of a desired portion includes an observation-image display section for displaying an enlarged view of a specific part of the specimen... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080282196 - Mobile communication device and method of controlling the same: Disclosed are a mobile communication device and a method of controlling the same in which an image of a web page is stored as a thumbnail image when the web page is added to a list of favorites. When the list of favorites is requested from the mobile communication device,... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080282199 - Cross taxonomy navigation from a bread crumb in a graphical user interface: Embodiments of the invention are directed to enabling a user to navigate to a web page or other resource in a taxonomy of resources using a crumb provided in a user interface. The crumb is associated with a category of web pages in the taxonomy. When a user indicates the... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20080282198 - Method and sytem for providing collaborative tag sets to assist in the use and navigation of a folksonomy: A system for providing collaborative tag sets to assist in the navigation and use of a folksonomy. The collaborative tag sets are social in nature. As more users group two tags together into tag sets, the disclosed system causes the association between those two tags to grow stronger, as exposed... Agent: Lotus And Rational Software David A. Dagg, Esq.

20080282201 - Aircraft display system: The display system (1) comprises means (2) for managing the states of two cursors which are situated on one and the same interactive window (F1A, F1B) of a screen (E1), as a function of the last actions carried out by the crew.... Agent: Stevens Davis LLP

20080282200 - Information processing apparatus and information processing method: To provide a method for displaying a list of contents divided in plural pages by saving a trouble for finding the desired contents. If the user puts (hovers) a cursor over an index for displaying a divided partial list, the attribute values of the contents included in the partial list... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20080282203 - Generating vector geometry from raster input for semi-automatic land planning: One embodiment of the invention includes a land planning tool that maybe used to perform a variety of land planning tasks. The land planning tool may interpret global information systems (GIS) electronic data in conjunction with user-specified constraints to analyze and display a development site, visually indicating developable areas. The... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan, L.L.P.

20080282202 - Gestured movement of object to display edge: The use of gestures to organize displayed objects on an interactive display. The gesture is used to move the displayed object to the edge of the interactive display so that the displayed object is only partially displayed after being moved. The size of the displayed object may be reduced and/or... Agent: Workman Nydegger/microsoft

20080282205 - Unified launcher user interface system and method for integrating multiple disparate environments on an electronic device: A unified launcher user interface system and method for integrating a plurality of applications in different runtime environments on an electronic device, for example a mobile device is disclosed. The unified launcher user interface system includes a user interface presenting icons representing the plurality of applications configured to run in... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080282204 - User interfaces for electronic devices: An interaction engine (4) monitors the use of a mobile telephone (1) and applications running on the mobile telephone (1) by a user, and provides information regarding those interactions to a user expertise calculation module (7). The user expertise calculation module (7) then uses that information to determine a current... Agent: Hayes, Soloway P.C.

20080276158 - System for downloading digital content published in a media channel: There is provided a system for downloading digital content to a portable media player, the digital content being published in a media channel by a content creator. The system may reside on a server accessible via the Internet. The system may comprise: a data receiver module to receive the digital... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080276157 - Universal multimedia engine and method for producing the same: A method, system and apparatus for adapting the multimedia content for presentation by an application that uses, processes or otherwise services the multimedia content (“multimedia application”) is provided. The method includes receiving the multimedia content formatted in accordance with at least one of a plurality of multimedia protocols; using a... Agent: Patterson & Sheridan L.L.P. Nj Office

20080276159 - Creating annotated recordings and transcripts of presentations using a mobile device: A method for creating an annotated transcript of a presentation includes steps of: receiving an annotation stream recorded on a mobile device, wherein the annotation stream includes time stamped annotations corresponding to segments of the presentation; receiving a transcript of the presentation, wherein the transcript is time stamped; and then... Agent: Michael Buchenhorner, P.A.

20080276160 - Data structure suitable for browsing and managing contents stored in storage medium: A memory card has a data structure including three kinds of files: page files as a content main body to be displayed on a display section; a content management file that manages the page files belonging to each content; a total management file that manages all the content management files... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20080276161 - Spreadsheet rotating cell object: The Spreadsheet Rotating Cell Object provides an improvement to computer software spreadsheets which gives the computer user the ability to invoke the aid of an animated rotating cell object which rotates new data or data representations in and out of the spreadsheet cell.... Agent: James M. Slavens

20080276162 - Method of organizing and presenting data in a table: An item is organized and presented by displaying a table, wherein the table displays a plurality of data comprising analysis results characterizing the at least one item, and wherein an analysis result is based on a decision made by an expert system according to a rule base. Input is accepted... Agent: Smith, Gambrell & Russell

20080276163 - Content creation system, content creation method, computer executable program for executing the same content creation method, computer readable storage medium having stored the same program, graphical user interface system and display control method: The present invention relates to creating a web page and voice browsing of the web page, and more particularly, it improves accessibility for the voice browsing of the web page through a synthetic voice, efficiently with high reliability. A content creation system 20 of the present invention is used for... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080276164 - Automatic download of contact-related web data feeds: A method for processing data feeds within a entity management application of a mobile device includes configuring a data feed for an entity in the entity management application of the mobile device, retrieving contents of the data feed for the entity, formatting the contents of the data feed to thereby... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080276165 - Method and apparatus for image processing, and computer program product: A screen control unit reads an element definition-file and a layout-data file, interprets the element definition-file, reads a screen-element file specified by a result of the interpretation, and arranges a screen element represented by the screen-element file at a layout location indicated by the layout-data file thereby generating an operation... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080276166 - Automatic switching fonts on multilingual text runs: Automatic switching of fonts on multilingual text runs in one action is provided. After an indication that a new font scheme is to be applied to a multilingual text selection, a client application passes a language identification for each of the multilingual text runs, a major/minor font designation for each... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080276167 - Device and method for generating a text object: A graphic output device for generating a mixed graphic-textual depiction having at least one text object consisting of multiple letters for identifying a geographic feature, the output device comprising a processor unit, which is set up to reshape the text object in such a manner that the reshaped text object... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080276168 - Method, device, and graphical user interface for dialing with a click wheel: One aspect of the invention involves a computer-implemented method in which a portable communications device with a click wheel and a display detects a plurality of finger contacts with the click wheel. Each finger contact includes an angular displacement of the finger contact on the click wheel between an initial... Agent: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP/ Ai

20080276169 - Method and system for requesting help: A method (and system) of requesting help includes connecting a user to a help request generator, accessing, by the help request generator, a database including a list of helpers, selecting helper from the list of helpers, and transmitting a help request from the help request generator to the helper... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20080276170 - System and method for generating and arranging status gadgets in a small display area: A system and method for persistently providing at least one status notification regarding a device component or application on an electronic system or device is provided. A selectable status notification icon (status gadget) is assigned for each of a number of applications and/or components for which status is monitored, each... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080276172 - Dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components: Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to mouse over sensitive user interface components and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for dynamic mouse over handling for tightly packed user interface components. In one embodiment of the invention, a method... Agent: Carey, Rodriguez, Greenberg & Paul, LLP Steven M. Greenberg

20080276171 - Filing system: A filing assistant for coupling to an e-mail application; the email application comprising a message database for storing and retrieving messages and a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the messages and for allowing the user to otherwise interact with the application, the filing assistant comprising a display and indexer... Agent: Sean Liam Kelleher Kelleher Ip, PLLC

20080276173 - Iteratively locating a position corresponding to a desired seek time: Techniques enable locating a position within a file that corresponds to a desired seek time without having access to an index specifying the desired seek time's position. An iterative process may be used to estimate the position that corresponds to the desired seek time. The process may iterate through multiple... Agent: Lee & Hayes PLLC

20080276174 - Providing an interactive presentation environment: An interactive presentation environment for eMeetings or the like that provides participants with more control over what they see and hear. One embodiment of the interactive presentation environment comprises a meeting recorder adapted to create a recording of a live meeting and a navigation control for selecting a portion of... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20080276175 - Content production apparatus and method: A content production apparatus and method provided for a user to produce a personal content using data collected while using a mobile terminal. The content production method includes displaying an theme selection screen listing subjects and templates associated with the subjects; displaying a content production screen including a content production... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080276176 - Guestbook: A computer-implemented system automatically creates electronic guestbooks using a computer-based guestbook creation system, which includes a computer (such as a tablet computer) and a digital camera connected to the computer. The guestbook creation system is provided at a particular location attended by guests, such as the banquet hall where a... Agent: Robert Plotkin, PC

20080276178 - Adjusting media display in a personal display system based on perspective: A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the received media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080276177 - Tag-sharing and tag-sharing application program interface: Various embodiments provide a mechanism by which a user's tags can be shared across a variety of web sites, applications or services, in addition to those web sites where a particular tag may have been created. In one or more embodiments, an application program interface (API) is provided and exposes... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080276179 - Monitoring and aggregating user activities in heterogeneous systems: A system, method, and computer program product for monitoring and aggregating user activities across heterogeneous systems. The system, method, and computer program product retrieve information about the heterogeneous systems and rules, monitor user activities in the heterogeneous systems according to the rules, reconcile the user activities by providing supplemental information,... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080276180 - Method and system configured to assess a fee for communication facilitation regarding publication information: A method and system are configured to assess a fee for communication facilitation regarding publication information. An electronic publication system includes a publication module configured to generate a user interface based on an information search. The user interface includes search result information associated with a first entity and communication initiation... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner/ebay

20080276181 - Mesh-managing data across a distributed set of devices: Data files, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be accessed at a device that collaborates in a mesh. The mesh may include any number or type of devices that collaborate in a network. Data, applications and/or corresponding user interfaces may be stored within a core object that may be shared... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080276182 - Method for remotely configuring user interfaces for portable devices: A method of configuring the user interface of a portable electronic device is provided. A user designed user interface is created using authoring tools at a remote server and stored. A remote server file is accessed that stores a user designed user interface. The customized interface is selected and downloaded... Agent: Creative Labs, Inc. Legal Department

20080276183 - Method and apparatus for web page co-browsing: A method and apparatus for extracting information from a web page on a standard end user browser without plug-ins, includes the steps of dynamically creating an element on a web page being viewed by an end user, copying at least a portion of the contents of the web page or... Agent: Dla Piper LLP (us) Attn: Patent Group

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20080276185 - System for organization, display, and navigation of digital information: A system and method for the organization, display, and navigation of digital information. The system allows for the easy navigation of a primary source of information, as well as the navigation of secondary information related to the primary information source. The system may be used to organize, display, or navigate... Agent: Standley Law Group LLP

20080276186 - Method and system for adapting a user interface of a device: Method for adapting a user interface of a device, comprising detecting user characteristic data of an active user, wherein said user characteristic data is descriptive of a capability of said active user to handle said user interface, determining an adapted user interface based on said user characteristic data; and approving... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080276187 - Iconic programming system with disabling and enabling of dependent objects: An iconic network within a computer system is displayed on a display device. Portions of the iconic network within the computer system can be disabled. The computer system receives user input to disable a first graphical object. The computer system then identifies a second graphical object as dependent from the... Agent: Agilent Technologies Inc.

20080276188 - Method of distributed storytelling: A method for distributing a story in a non-linear format comprises providing a story in multiple plot segments through multiple publication sources. An initial plot segment is provided by an author comprising at least one clue for directing a reader to additional plot segments. The additional segments may comprise clues... Agent: Michael A. O'neil Michael A. O'neil, P.C.

20080276189 - Method and system for themeable on-screen display: A method of customizing an on-screen menu display. According to one embodiment, a plurality of selectable themes is provided and in response to a selection of one of the selectable themes, the graphical user interface is customized. According to one embodiment, the selectable themes provided are based on user's prior... Agent: Murabito, Hao& Barnes LLP

20080276190 - Customer relationship management system with quicknotes: A quicknotes system and method is provided. A software-based customer relationship management system and method may include the quicknotes functionality.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080276191 - Vehicular heads-up display system: Heads-up display arrangements for vehicles including a seat in which an occupant sits, a system for forming an image of text and/or graphics in a field of view of the occupant, a determination arrangement for determining a position of the occupant (or a part thereof) and an adjustment system for... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20080276192 - Method and apparatus for controlling an electromagnetic energy output system: A graphical user interface is described that controls an electromagnetic energy output system. A touchscreen presents control icons and receives input from a user; the input being used to control the electromagnetic energy output system. The interface permits modifying stored values of preset operating parameters.... Agent: Stout, Uxa, Buyan & Mullins LLP

20080276194 - Method of exposing fully editable text fields on a mobile device: A method for fully exposing fully editable text fields on a mobile device is disclosed. The text fields are configured for flags where the flags indicate the type of content stored in the text fields. The method includes assigning a third flag to a disclose property where the disclose property... Agent: Berry & Associates P.C.

20080276193 - Smart fields: Systems and methods are provided for smart interfaces that shift the burden of cognition from a user or data input source to the computer system controlling the software or user interfaces requiring data input. More particularly, according to embodiments of present invention, by using information known about a user or... Agent: Mpg, LLP And Yahoo! Inc.

20080276195 - Live companion window: An apparatus and method provide a companion application via a companion application corresponding to a host window provided by a host application, the companion window providing information or metadata descriptive of data in the host window. The host application and companion applications may be separate applications such that the host... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080276196 - Automatically adjusting media display in a personal display system: A personal display system with which a user may adjust the configuration of displayed media is provided. The personal display system may include an electronic device operative to provide media to a personal display device operative to display the received media. Using one or more optical and digital components, the... Agent: Ropes & Gray LLP

20080276197 - Visualisation of buddylist with localisation information: A system (800), apparatus (700) and method (600) are provided to visualize attributes associated with a mobile or stationary user device (100) and a list of contacts (105) contacted via a mobile or stationary contact device, the attributes being stored in an on board persistent memory (606) and presented to... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080276199 - Item selecting device, item selecting method and item selecting program: An item selecting device includes: a display controlling section for displaying a Venn diagram formed from subsets each of which indicates a selectable item on a display screen, wherein each of areas formed by the Venn diagram corresponds to an item group including at least one of the selectable item;... Agent: Nec Corporation Of America

20080276198 - Method for controlling a device: A device with a graphical user interface, via which the functions of the device are controlled has functions divided into categories which are sub-divided into subcategories. The categories are represented by primary regions that are schematically arranged on the user interface. The primary regions contain elements, each of which represents... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080276200 - Method for disposing a menu layout and related device: The present invention provides a method for disposing a menu layout and related device. The method includes: displaying a menu on a display screen to divide the display screen to at least a first area and a second area; receiving an input signal for indicating a control item of the... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080276201 - Multidimensional structured data visualization method and apparatus, text visualization method and apparatus, method and apparatus for visualizing and graphically navigating the world wide web, method and apparatus for visualizing hierarchies: A method of displaying correlations among information objects includes receiving a query against a database; obtaining a query result set; and generating a visualization representing the components of the result set, the visualization including one of a plane and line to represent a data field, nodes representing data values, and... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080276202 - System and method for photo album creation using television: A system and method for classifying photographs using a TV and a remote control, and then subsequently searching for previously classified photos. A multi-level GUI that includes a “who” GUI operable to classify a photograph according to a proper name of a person appearing in the photograph and a “what”... Agent: Rogitz & Associates

20080276203 - User interface and cooking oven provided with such user interface: An user interface for domestic appliances, particularly for cooking ovens, comprises input and display for showing menus and/or items selected by the user through said input. The input comprises a selection zone where the user's finger can move, the display having at least a portion with a shape substantially corresponding... Agent: Whirlpool Patents Company - Md 0750

20080276204 - Method and system for providing a screen saver in a mobile electronic device: A system and method for providing a screen saver for a display panel in a mobile electronic device are provided. After a time period of inactivity has been sensed, a screen saver image is retrieved from memory and transmitted to a display panel. The method and system also preferably provide... Agent: Research In Motion Attn: Glenda Wolfe